AN: Yo what up foos? My first… semi flame was given to me. And I must say I find myself looking at the flamer like he's an idiot. He called me a hypocrite because I made Naruto show up late despite the fact that I supposedly said I hate it when people make Naruto like Sasuke and apparently trying to get back to the surface from deep underground and making a flashy entrance is too much like Sasuke for his liking. First of all where in my profile does it say that I hate it when People make Naruto like the over dramatic versions of Sasuke I see in fan fics all the time? I said I dislike the fact that everyone ruthlessly bashes Sasuke despite the fact that they themselves usually have a story making Naruto just as evil, emo, ect.

A flashy entrance is not like Sasuke. It's like ANYONE with flair!

Also I thought you would be able to tell, based on his attitude in this fic, that Naruto is supposed to be a show off!! Deal with it!!"

The only thing you told me that was worth any merit was your disapproval for him telling everyone about the city so soon. But then again, so did three other people. And I admit that that part was something I put down without thinking. And I Apologize for that. But it's too late to change it now.

Now onward with the story!!

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Chapter four

Finals continue

Invasion of the Leaf

Naruto basked in the glory that was the utter chaos and pure astonishment of the entire populous of the arena as they finally began to cope with the fact that the supposed dead-last had utterly destroyed the Hyuga prodigy in front of a world full of doubters. Even the Konoha genin were looking at him with wide eyes and stunned expressions. There were three exceptions though. Sasuke was smirking, Sakura was cheering so loud the others around her gave her a wide berth in the futile hopes of sparing their poor eardrums and Hinata had stars in her eyes. Her mind was on cloud way the fuck up there and giddy with the fact that Naruto had humiliated Neji in her honor. It was like a dream come true!

Up in the booth, the Hokage looked stunned as hell but he also looked extremely pleased at the same time. He had no idea who…or what Naruto had trained with or where he had gotten those weapons but god be damned if he wasn't proud.

However he did make it mental note to have a talk with Naruto.

The Kazekage was staring so intently at Naruto it was borderline creepy. A little too creepy actually.

"The hell?" thought the Hokage, a slight shudder running through his body.

The Kazekage gave a freaky smile and the Hokage could have sworn he saw the man lick his lips a bit."

"THE HELL!?"

"What amazing weapons," he muttered in a voice barely above a whisper.

The Hokage became guarded. In more than one way.

Naruto gave a happy sigh as he unstrapped the scroll from his back, leaned it against the wall and took a seat next to it, wrapping the cloth of his cape around him as he too leaned into the wall.

The noise was dying down but it was still crazy out there. Everyone was still trying to guess how Naruto had made Neji look like a damn amateur. Even with his new weapons it shouldn't have been that easy.

He had just closed his eyes, intending on reliving his fight with Neji in his mind with great satisfaction over and over again when two shadows suddenly washed over him. He opened one eye, that smirk of his still plastered on his face.

"Yes?" His tone was amused, taunting almost. Shikamaru and Sasuke shrugged it off. Their minds were more concerned with what they had just witnessed.

Naruto…you…" began Shikamaru only to be cut off.

"Wowed the crowd? Dazzled the ladies? Showed the village that the Hyuga aint shit to me? Owned a prodigy with my mad skills? Yeah I know."

"Dobe," said Sasuke, his tone a mix of exasperation and annoyance. "What was that? That bike? That flash bomb? That sword?" Sasuke was genuinely surprised. There was no jealousy, desire or ill intentions when he asked his question. Just…curiosity.

Naruto gave a huge smirk and clasped both hands behind his head.

"I'll tell ya what Uchiha. You stop by and teach me your fire jutsus sometime and I'll tell you."

Sasuke's eyes widened.

Shikamaru voiced his own thoughts. "Naruto…you've changed. You seem…"

"Like my true self? Yeah it feels that way. My training helped me cope with numerous problems I had going on in my head. My mind is a lot clearer now and I'm more in tune with my soul. I feel so alive it's fucking euphoric!" He finished his sentence in an excited yell. "I feel amazing! Ya know I don't even care that you were the best anymore Sasuke! I learned that it's too damn stressful to be a rival to someone."

Sasuke was shocked at first but then he quickly became amused. "So I no longer have to worry about an annoying short blonde trying in vain to best me at everything?"

Naruto smirked. "Of course. I'll leave what you're best at to you while I best you at the things I'm better at." He then grabbed the wooden stick from his belt and gave it a wave. A shower of sparks exploded from the tip in a brilliant display of light and color.

"Like using this for example." He then placed the stick back in its position on his belt and shrugged. The crowd was calming down but Shikamaru and Sasuke were still full of questions.

"Naruto…What happened? You said something about an ancient city."

Naruto sweat dropped. "Did I? OH CRAPING SHIT DAMMIT!!" he suddenly yelled, startling the two genin and the others that were trying discreetly to listen in on the conversation.

Naruto glared a bit. "Fuck now everyone and their momma is gonna know about that!"

"Maybe you shouldn't have blurted it out like that when you were fighting the Hyuga," said the Uchiha.

Naruto glared a bit at Sasuke but sighed.

"Fine. I'll tell you." They leaned in, a bit more interested.

"But after this is all over and we can talk somewhere where THERE AINT A BUNCH OF NOSEY PRICKS ALL UP IN MY BUSINESS!!" The other genin flinched. Even Shino recoiled a bit and he wasn't even trying to listen in on Naruto.

"Anyway enough about me let's watch the rest of this thing alright?"

Naruto then closed his eyes and began to whistle a foreign tune. Shikamaru and Sasuke exchanged looks then shrugged while heading back to their spots.

Strangely enough, or fortunately enough, depending on the person, there were only six people in the whole entire arena that had actually registered the fact that Naruto had said something about being through into a crack in the ground and into an ancient city, Shikamaru and Sasuke were part of those six, The Hokage and the Kazekage were the second two, Neji who was closest to Naruto at the time and of course Kakashi. Everyone else was too busy watching Naruto whoop Neji's ass to even care about the fact that Naruto had so blatantly revealed what should be a huge freaking secret. A world changing secret too! Of course Naruto didn't know this. He was cursing himself up a storm in his head.

But then he relaxed. Even if someone decided to get down to the city he was sure they'd get torn apart in no time by Sky-Net and the Dues ex Machina and the machines under their control simply because the ninja of Konoha or the rest of the world for that matter tend to be a bit overzealous and demanding. And unlike Naruto who had the extreme luck of running into Sonny and the Ns-5s first, they'd drop right down in the middle of Sky-Net's territory and consequently, get vaporized by their laser rifles in a flash.

He grinned.

Because the looks on their faces would be fucking hilarious as they turned to ashes.

He was taken out of his thoughts by someone raising their hand and saying, "Proctor I forfeit my match!"

Naruto opened one eye and saw the Suna Nin dressed in black pajamas and makeup lowering his hand. He gave a sigh in disappointment and got to his feet. The puppet technique was actually something he was more interested in now that he was more intelligent. And to see the guy just puss out like that…

"Wimp," he said to him as he leaned against the railing next to Shino and Sasuke.

The Suna Nin scowled but resisted the urge to plant his foot in the blonde's ass.

"He'd get his as soon as the invasion started. The blonde would have so many puppet parts coming at him that by the time he was finished all the brat would be able to do is scream at random times, "DOLLS!! KEEP EM AWAY!" while locked up in the wacky shack and bound in a straight jacket. If he survived that is.

Temari on the other hand found herself staring at the overly confident and foul mouthed blonde. This was a far different boy then she remembered seeing a month back. Granted he still spoke the same, with the curse words in all but the way he carried himself was different now. He was no longer jumpy, or scared. He no longer glanced over his shoulders every minute and he no longer walked while tense from head to toe. His eyes gleamed with a vast amount on knowledge that wasn't there before and his entire aura reeked of masculinity. It… was quite attractive.

She found herself examining the boy from the corner of her eye as he spoke with the lazy one.

He looked almost like a noble, the way the cape covered his body, hiding all but his head from the world and the scroll that was strapped to his back. She held in a giggle as she read the title totally kickass relics of the past and then wondered what else he had hidden in that scroll. That flying bike was very cool. Even she could admit that.

She gave a slightly disappointed sigh. It was too bad they were going to be enemies soon. She would have liked to get to know this boy a bit.

"Third match of the final rounds, Nara Shikamaru VS Sabaku No Temari," called Genma.

Temari almost didn't hear the call but managed to tear her eyes off of Naruto long enough to open her fan and glide down in a flurry of wind.

She smirked first at Naruto, then at Shikamaru.

"Get your lazy ass down here so I can kick it!" she declared. Shikamaru would have sighed and given up if Naruto didn't suddenly smirked and shoved him over the edge with a declaration of, "Ain't no fuckin way I'm letting your lazy ass bitch out like that make up wearing Nancy boy there," while pointing at Kankuro, Sasuke couldn't help it. He snorted before laughing a bit. Kankuro snarled and would have lunged if it wasn't for his sensei holding him back with a glare and a shake of the head.

"Damn you Naruto," grumbled Shikamaru before he prepared to face the Kunoichi.

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The match between Temari and Shikamaru turned out to be just as exciting as the match between Neji and Naruto. The longer it went on the more epic it became. It was a battle of wits, the clash of big nerdy brains, and the counter cancellation of opposing strategies.

Naruto himself was grinning like a madman as he watched Shikamaru reveal his true potential. With a mind like what the Nara had he could defeat even the mightiest of ninja. Heh, the Droids would love a strategist like Shikamaru. He was also impressed with the sand chick but Shikamaru was the one he was paying attention to. Shikamaru seemed to be steps ahead of everything Temari did and when he eventually trapped her in his shadow via one of the holes his Kage Bunshin had created while trying to smash Neji's face in the entire arena became quiet, and then exploded into undignified yells of disapproval as Shikamaru declared that he was giving up.

"GOD DAMMIT! I SAID DON'T WIMP OUT!! ASSHOLE!!" screamed Naruto as he leapt over the railing and down to the floor. Shikamaru glared at him and Temari made a hasty retreat in order to hide her affectionate smile.

Wow. Naruto was working her over and he wasn't even aware of it! Damn. Could her father just hurry the hell up with the plan before something worse happens?

"Oi Dobe, Lazy ass, get out of the arena so I can fight," said Sasuke as he appeared in a swirl of leaves, dazzling the girls in the audience.

"WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU LEARN THE FUCKIN SHUNSHIN!!"

Sasuke sweat dropped as did Shikamaru.

Naruto looked away with his nose in the air.

"Tch whatever, kick the sand boy's ass or face my wrath."

Then with a dramatic swish of his cape, Naruto turned and headed off, Shikamaru shaking his head as he followed him.

"Sheesh he's worse than before a month ago," muttered Sasuke, actually amused at Naruto's dramatic attitude. He closed his eyes and looked up, clearing his mind and preparing for the most epic of battles he would ever have to face. Gaara wasn't a joke. He'd have to do everything in his power to win this.

Like Naruto, he basked in the attention that was given to him. Only these were cheers. Not incredulous yelling because they were stunned that he could have the skill and power to actually win his match. "Of course, they also cheer because I'm from the Uchiha clan," he mumbled with a bit of annoyance. That was the only thing that got to him.

But what can a guy do ya know? So instead of wasting time bitching, he just waited for his opponent.

Meanwhile Naruto and Shikamaru had made it up the stairs when they saw Gaara being confronted with by a pair of chump ninjas trying to intimidate him into quitting.

"This won't end well," muttered Naruto to the wide eyed Shikamaru.

And sure enough, the two fools got eaten like they were fucking chocolate bunnies by the sand in Gaara's Gourd.

"Holy shit," muttered Shikamaru causing Naruto to laugh. "Hah! So you DO have a bit of a mouth on ya! That's good to know!"

Then he continued up the stairs where he met face to face with Gaara. The two seemed to freeze, eyes staring into each other so intently that Shikamaru actually felt the war they were silently waging.

Suddenly a tendril of sand shot at Naruto who responded with a twist and a swipe of his hand as he drew his light saber, turned it on and sliced the tendril in half, turning some of the sand into glass.

Shikamaru gasped. He barely saw the blonde move!

"Ya know just cause those two saps you killed earlier were a couple of saps doesn't mean that I am. Do that again and this baby's taking off your head."

"Wait Naruto you don't know what this guy is!"

Naruto ignored Shikamaru as he continued to stare at Gaara, huge light saber glowing and humming threateningly. For a second it seemed like Gaara was going to strike, then he gave Naruto the creepiest most fucked up looking grin he had ever seen."

"Mother…wants your blood."

If Gaara was expecting any reaction from Naruto, a hearty laugh sure the hell wasn't on the top of the list.

"Is your mother hot?" he asked after a minute, stunning Shikamaru. "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR DAMN MIND!!" he screamed loud enough in his head to crumble entire countries.

"What?" was Gaara's intelligent reply. Even the Shukaku was surprised.

"Because unless she's drop dead gorgeous she ain't getting a shot at me anytime soon because my blood's been the treasure almost everyone has been seeking since the day I was born. She's gonna have to wait in line unless she arrives looking like something straight out of a hentai designed to look like the ruler of Heaven itself."

He gave a wink. "Tell your mother those are the conditions if she wants to fight me first. NOW COME SHIKA, LEAVE THIS BOY TO HIS FIGHT WITH THE UCHIHA!"

Then with another dramatic swish of his cape he walked past Gaara hiding his thoroughly amused grin. He didn't really know what was going on with that crazy sand Nin but he didn't really care either. Sasuke could take him. He was sure of it.

"Naruto you really are out of your mind," he grumbled as he edged carefully around Gaara the chased his former classmate down. Naruto's wasn't there when Gaara tried to kill Lee in the hospital. He also wasn't there for the whole story about the monster sealed inside of him either. He was positive Naruto's wouldn't be so cocky if he had heard Gaara's story. However he just concentrated on breathing a huge sigh of relief at the fact that Gaara didn't mash them with sand.

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By the time Naruto and Shikamaru returned to the waiting booths, Sasuke and Gaara had already began their fight. The crowd was already on the edges of their seats due to the intensity. They were a blur of moving sand and black clad Uchiha Avenger. Both were moving at speeds most impressive.

Naruto raised an eyebrow when Sasuke started running around Gaara at a great speed.

"Hmm. Using Lee's technique eh? How much did you learn from it Uchiha?" he asked with a smirk as Sasuke finally charged, ducked under a sandy jab then did a fancy acrobatic side flip before he planted his foot in Gaara's abdomen, stunning the other sand nins and sending Gaara flying a few feet.

Naruto gave a sigh as Gaara got back up and attacked again.

"If all that sand dude uses is well…sand then he's pretty lame," said Naruto with a sigh as Sasuke once again introduced Gaara to one of his chakra encrusted limbs. He missed the astonished looks the rest of the genin were giving him. Did he not witness that slaughter known as his fight with Lee?

Then again, Lee nearly killed him so…

"Oi! What's he doin now!?"

They were taken out of their thoughts by Naruto yelling as Gaara sat down and encased himself in a sphere of sand. Temari, Kankuro and Baki looked terrified and the rest looked intrigued. Well Sasuke looked pissed

It might have had to do with the sand spikes nearly neutering him. Or the floating eye seemingly smirking at him.

"I won't stand for this," he said to himself as she shot up the wall and began to gather a huge amount of chakra while doing hand signs.

A few seconds later the crowd was wowed by Sasuke's glowing ball of condensed screeching electricity.

Well there was one exception.

"WHAT THE FUCK! KINDA CRAZY JACKED UP SHIT IS THIS!? WHY THE FUCK DOES HE GET TO LEARN THE CONDENSED LIGHTNING MOVE!? KAKASHI YOU'RE A DOUCHE YA KNOW THAT!?"

There were huge anime tears flowing from the blonde's eyes as he looked on with envy at Sasuke's attack as he shot at Gaara and shouted for all to hear, "CHIDORI!!"

Kakashi sweat dropped.

Naruto would have said more if the shout of, "AAHHHH BLOOOOODDDDD! IT'S MY BLOOOOODDDDD!!" hadn't thoroughly freaked him and everyone else out.

"What the hell was that?"

Then, everything when straight to hell in a hand basket.

A genjutsu was dropped and numerous ninja not belonging to Konoha leapt into action an before anyone could comprehend what the fuck just went down, there was a war going on.

Naruto froze as San ninjas and Sound ninjas leapt out of their disguises and attacked anyone even slightly resembling a Leaf ninja.

Kankuro who was behind Naruto smirked with evil intentions. This was gonna be good. Time for his well deserved revenge. A second before Shino's foot slammed into his face and sent him careening into the arena.

"Your fight is with me…coward," then the bug user was after him.

Naruto's attitude did a complete one eighty in a second. His eyes surveyed the area with a great intensity. "Attack my home eh?" He growled out as he grabbed his laser gun and pointed at the head of an Oto Nin that was struggling against Kurenai.

"Not on my watch assholes." The he pulled the trigger.

Kurenai gasped as a green beam of energy lanced through her foe's head, leaving behind a smoking hole.

"What the?" Then she saw Naruto lower the weapon, his eyes a freezing blizzard. She gasped. Naruto swished his cape then with a mighty roar leapt into the air. "Rapid fire!" he shouted as the beams began to pour out of the gun like rain. Enemy Nin were downed in instances. Armor and weapons were melted through like butter. The Konoha Nin paused and opted to stare in shock at Naruto's brutality.

"Ha eat this!" he shouted. He fired the gun one more time at Baki, who dodged. Barely.

"What is that thing?"

Naruto smirked and pointed again. "Your demise." But then something caught the corner of his eye. Something that made him gasp.

"Naruto look out!" shouted Sasuke as he shoved the boy away from a wave of sand sent by Gaara.

"MOTHER WILL HAVE YOUR BLOOD!!"

Naruto snapped out of it but couldn't take his attention off of the kage box, where a purple barrier had formed around the old man and Orochimaru. Sasuke had just planted another chidori in Gaara's shoulder causing Temari to grab him and run with him, He chased after him.

Naruto stared on in shock at the battle that was happening and he came to a conclusion very quickly. "The old man's not gonna win like this."

He ignored the battle going on around him. How he didn't get struck by a stray kunai was a mystery but there he was, staring up at the purple barrier.

Kakashi appeared next to him with Shikamaru, Pakkun and Sakura.

"Naruto follow Sasuke! He went after Gaara!"

But Naruto didn't hear him. He moved automatically.

"Not today Snake boy! You won't win while Uzumaki Naruto lives here!"

Then he bit his thumb and did the hand signs, chakra erupting from him in waves, washing over everyon in the arena and waking up the civilians as well as the genjustsu was washed away like an old satin on a glass window.

"Kuchiyose No jutsu!!"

Then in a gigantic puff of smoke they appeared, Fifity five of them. All of them gleaming in the sunlight like metal statutes.

Terminators and Sky-Net himself.

And floating above them was a single sentinel, Naruto standing atop of it like a king of darkness. The sentinel floated there motionless until Naruto's voice echoed across the village. "Anyone that's inside that barrier that is not the Old man is to be killed, understand?"

The sentinel beeped a few times in response.

Naruto smirked. "Good."

Then he looked down to Sky-Net and the terminators.

"Hello again, Human," said the machine.

Naruto smirked. "So I got you guys on my first try eh?" Then he gave a wicked grin. "Good, because I have some ninjas for you to kill."

"OH?" Naruto pointed to his head band. "In this village are humans bearing this symbol. The ones that don't bear this symbol but bear a different one? Those are you targets."

Sky-Net grinned.

"It will be…a pleasure." His left arm transformed into a small cannon with a glowing blue barrel the terminators went through similar transformations. The T-1000 were little more the metal walking skeletons but the more advanced human killing machines, the T-Xs however gained a silver metallic human appearance like Sky-Net.

Then the slaughter began.

Naruto Then yanked his scroll from his back, smeared a bit of blood on it and summoned forth a blue board that had two glowing rings on the underside of it. Naruto leapt onto the board and stunned all when he began to float.

"Now go!!"

The he was off, shooting through the air towards the forest and Sasuke while the sentinel shot at the barrier, leaving behind an entire village of stunned onlookers.

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And that's the chapter. I know it might seem a bit randomized but trust me there's a method to my madness! Muahahahahahahahaha! Stay tuned for the next chapter, and find out just how Naruto intends to fight the Shukaku.